If it's only about loosing weight - skip dinner. it's not easy sometimes, but do that a few months and those pounds will be wiped. Plus you have more time in the evening.
If i have to buy imported stuff at least let it be the lesser of the 2 evils. Wow, what a stupid statement. You are a poor guy, you have to make this decision every time you buy electronic gear I suppose. What is the lesser of 2 evils, "Made in China" or "Made in Vietnam"?
And I ask myself, is it easy to fuel your car with locally produced gas?
I act as a moderator of a big german mac-board, and I've not heard of one single Leopard-user switching back to Tiger. In fact, most of the Leo-crashing-problems stem from people using older versions of "hack-the-OS" - apps like application enhancer (APE).
Leopard is stable for the majority of all its users.
In the article, they state that the user/patient controls everything. Now, while I already doubt this, it's written that the user has to permit (once) what your doctors can store in this "vault" and what not. I guess they have to implement this security measure, health-records are very valuable and potentially dangerous data. Without the patient being able to decide what gets there and what not, there would be quite some resistance in various countries.
I trust I can refuse to have my data stored there.
You're sure it runs under X11? My X11 app does not start, it does however when I run the GIMP. Also, blender has its own menubar (ok, not with much useful things in it, but definitively not X11s menubar). Blender seems to work just like every other native OS X application.
The MacBook boots just fine when the Firmware Password is set, you just can't reformat the harddrive - unless you put it in another case and do what you want there.
However, if the Laptop boots and you have a password-free account (you should set up a guest account), I guess many thieves are going to try out how the laptop works. And that's when Undercover comes into play.
Of course it's not 100% sure, but the odds are good.
You may find it intellectually lazy to believe in something that cannot be proven. Perhaps it cannot be proven TO YOU. That doesn't mean others haven't experienced something outside your experience.
Not to mention, since when does spirituality mean one does not think? You're branding all spiritual people with the same iron, and this is simply crazy.
It's bad enough you're grouping Unitarians (who may or may not be humanist), Christians (progressive and fundie), Buddhists (in all their many forms) and all other spiritual/agnostic/religious people into the same category without respecting (or making any attempt to understand) the intricaces laying therein. No, I did not do this, not that I knew. I don't care if someone is a believer or not, as long as he does not ignore knowledge for the sake of his belief. And I understand you very well, this is called belief because for some people, there does not need to be proof. I respect that. But from a neutral POV, there is no proof - not for and not against the existence of a god. I guess we agree on this by now.
What's wrong - is the world too big for you? The idea that something cannot be explained now or in the near future by science scare you too bad? Why should that scare me? I don't believe in god, I don't need no proof to believe that. Same goes for you, but in the opposite direction. I'm fine with that, as long as you don't tell me that the whole evolution theory is wrong or other things hardcore christians want to make you believe.
[...] but to go further and say it's an absolute fact is unreasonable. That's perfectly true.
(I didn't claim that is was a fact, my fore-posters did, just to mention.;-))
This is correct, but you've not done what he asked - proved that God does not exist. No, I have not done this, I can't. Same as he can't prove that my spaghetti monster does not exist. Or your invisible pixies.
But why is it always about "prove that not..."? There is no proof that it does exist. Why should I proof that something does not exist when you can't even proof that it does exist in the first place?
The true test for whether you should believe something or not is the question, "Is it useful?"
Does belief in the God hypothesis have an effect? Yes, it does - many people believe that it does, and feel better because of it. You may not, but that does not change what others feel.
So, you say that if something is useful, you are free to belive it? Well, I believe that injecting Heroin makes me happy, and therefore it is useful. I should tell my kids...
If it is 100% fact that God doesn't exist, prove it.
That's what always comes up. Let me turn it this way: I believe that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, and it created the entire universe after drinking an awful lot.
I hope you agree, if you do not: prove that I am wrong!
Ok, think about this. Without God, nothing matters. It doesn't matter if you are terminally ill, or a terrorist. You are going to die, and that is the end of it. Life, then, is utterly meaningless. Nothing you do will make a difference. When you die, you wont even remember that you were here, and in a short time, no one else will remember you either. Life has no meaning, it never did, it doesn't now, and it never will. It is just time and death. Thats all. That's tough. Get used to it.
Yes, get used to it. When you die, it's all over for you. Your sentence should be reversed though: "With a god, nothing matters. It doesn't matter if you are terminally ill, or a terrorist."
It should be reversed because you believe you get access to some heaven, so it really does not matter when you die. After all, it won't be over, would it? There's eternity and the paradise awaiting you, isn't it? Suicide-Bombing would not make much sense if they didn't believe there's something great afterwards, would it? But without a god, it's over when you die. So it indeed does matter if you die, because you can't do anything after you die. Better stay alive if you're not ready to die.
And: You have the chance to be remembered. Maybe your grandson will tell his grandson once how cheerful, how sincere you once were, and how you impressed him. Maybe your name will once stand side-by-side of names like "Leonardo Da Vinci" or "Albert Einstein". You have the chance to make life on earth a bit better, and that's meaning enough for me to live. If you think that life has no meaning, you're a poor man.
Similiar here, Command + W closes the Window as it should. OS X's menubar is visible like always, so I know I am in the browser, no way of spoofing me to believe that this is now my desktop.
*yawn*
Hmmmm, maybe he wanted to imply that since there is no god, he did not get any brain. And with no brain, one can hardly think. Which could explain why he says that his brain was given by a god. Which could make us forgive him because with no brain...
Those ads are mainly about "fun" things, sure. On this one you see the mail client, but not composing a message. You can see a demo with the mail client here, though. As for typing a message, me too, I want to try it myself.
I think people who say "Great, I can do that with my XY, too" still didn't get the idea. It's all about the UI, a coherent UI. It's not so much about WHAT you can do, it's about HOW you do it. Simple example: On my phone, I need to press two buttons to read the latest text message. Same on the iPhone. But if I want to read that new text message later and first view some sent messages, I have to dismiss the alert telling me that a new message has arrived, open the menu, navigate to messages, choose "text messages" (3rd entry!! how stupid), choose "Sent" (again, 3rd entry in the menu) and look for the message. On the iPhone, it's still two taps. The same two taps.
Oh, yes, that's true for sure, but you can't deny that what you see in the ad is already standards-rising. Sure, I want to hold one in my own hands to see how it works, especially the on-screen keyboard. But hell, I loved my Palm until I saw what actually can be done with todays technology.
As for the 500$, don't forget that you get a video-iPod with it, too.
I don't think that it is misleading of Apple to claim that those displays "support [for] millions of colors"; they can do that in practice, and be it through dithering or frame rate control. Otherwise one could argue that all CRT monitors had to be declared as being capable of displaying three different colors, red, blue and green. =)
It is estimated that the human eye can perceive about 10 million different colors, not only some 16'000, but this has not yet been definitively resolved.;)
Concerning the lawsuit - seems that the suers failed to notice that the same displays (TN-Film 6-bit) were already present in iBooks and PowerBooks, and they are present in Acer Aspires, Acer TravelMates, Dell Inspirons, HP Omnibooks, HP Pavilions, Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBooks, IBM Thinkpads, Compaq Presarios, Sony VAIOs, Toshiba Satellites and so on... (List courtesy of Rixstep).
Doubleclicking a Screensaver launches System Preferences and calls the install-dialog of the System Preferences. You don't provide your own installation process for a screensaver, so how do you want to do this?
I've been using Dvorak for two years on my Mac now and I've been using this layout. Works exactly as you describe, as soon as you press the command-key, the american qwerty-layout is activated. I like it that way since Cmd + C, Cmd + V and Cmd + H are burnt into my cerebellum like walking or breathing... =)
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If it's only about loosing weight - skip dinner. it's not easy sometimes, but do that a few months and those pounds will be wiped. Plus you have more time in the evening.
That claim is bullshit like no other claim I've ever heard of regarding Google.
I wonder how painful it is to tap a keyboard with fingers as old as yours must be. Ah, wait, there's diclofenac. Never mind.
And I ask myself, is it easy to fuel your car with locally produced gas?
I act as a moderator of a big german mac-board, and I've not heard of one single Leopard-user switching back to Tiger. In fact, most of the Leo-crashing-problems stem from people using older versions of "hack-the-OS" - apps like application enhancer (APE).
Leopard is stable for the majority of all its users.
In the article, they state that the user/patient controls everything. Now, while I already doubt this, it's written that the user has to permit (once) what your doctors can store in this "vault" and what not. I guess they have to implement this security measure, health-records are very valuable and potentially dangerous data. Without the patient being able to decide what gets there and what not, there would be quite some resistance in various countries.
I trust I can refuse to have my data stored there.
Same here; my health-records stored on Windows-Servers with Microsofts own software?
Won't happen.
You're sure it runs under X11? My X11 app does not start, it does however when I run the GIMP. Also, blender has its own menubar (ok, not with much useful things in it, but definitively not X11s menubar). Blender seems to work just like every other native OS X application.
The MacBook boots just fine when the Firmware Password is set, you just can't reformat the harddrive - unless you put it in another case and do what you want there.
However, if the Laptop boots and you have a password-free account (you should set up a guest account), I guess many thieves are going to try out how the laptop works. And that's when Undercover comes into play.
Of course it's not 100% sure, but the odds are good.
Not to mention, since when does spirituality mean one does not think? You're branding all spiritual people with the same iron, and this is simply crazy.
It's bad enough you're grouping Unitarians (who may or may not be humanist), Christians (progressive and fundie), Buddhists (in all their many forms) and all other spiritual/agnostic/religious people into the same category without respecting (or making any attempt to understand) the intricaces laying therein. No, I did not do this, not that I knew. I don't care if someone is a believer or not, as long as he does not ignore knowledge for the sake of his belief. And I understand you very well, this is called belief because for some people, there does not need to be proof. I respect that. But from a neutral POV, there is no proof - not for and not against the existence of a god. I guess we agree on this by now.
What's wrong - is the world too big for you? The idea that something cannot be explained now or in the near future by science scare you too bad? Why should that scare me? I don't believe in god, I don't need no proof to believe that. Same goes for you, but in the opposite direction. I'm fine with that, as long as you don't tell me that the whole evolution theory is wrong or other things hardcore christians want to make you believe.
(I didn't claim that is was a fact, my fore-posters did, just to mention.
But why is it always about "prove that not..."? There is no proof that it does exist. Why should I proof that something does not exist when you can't even proof that it does exist in the first place?
The true test for whether you should believe something or not is the question, "Is it useful?"
Does belief in the God hypothesis have an effect? Yes, it does - many people believe that it does, and feel better because of it. You may not, but that does not change what others feel.
So, you say that if something is useful, you are free to belive it? Well, I believe that injecting Heroin makes me happy, and therefore it is useful. I should tell my kids...
And yes, it does have an effect to believe in a god, it makes you rude:
Religious Doctors No More Likely To Care For Underserved Patients
Divorce rates among conservative Christians significantly higher
If it is 100% fact that God doesn't exist, prove it.
That's what always comes up. Let me turn it this way: I believe that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, and it created the entire universe after drinking an awful lot.
I hope you agree, if you do not: prove that I am wrong!
Ok, think about this. Without God, nothing matters. It doesn't matter if you are terminally ill, or a terrorist. You are going to die, and that is the end of it. Life, then, is utterly meaningless. Nothing you do will make a difference. When you die, you wont even remember that you were here, and in a short time, no one else will remember you either. Life has no meaning, it never did, it doesn't now, and it never will. It is just time and death. Thats all. That's tough. Get used to it.
Yes, get used to it. When you die, it's all over for you. Your sentence should be reversed though: "With a god, nothing matters. It doesn't matter if you are terminally ill, or a terrorist."
It should be reversed because you believe you get access to some heaven, so it really does not matter when you die. After all, it won't be over, would it? There's eternity and the paradise awaiting you, isn't it? Suicide-Bombing would not make much sense if they didn't believe there's something great afterwards, would it? But without a god, it's over when you die. So it indeed does matter if you die, because you can't do anything after you die. Better stay alive if you're not ready to die.
And: You have the chance to be remembered. Maybe your grandson will tell his grandson once how cheerful, how sincere you once were, and how you impressed him. Maybe your name will once stand side-by-side of names like "Leonardo Da Vinci" or "Albert Einstein". You have the chance to make life on earth a bit better, and that's meaning enough for me to live. If you think that life has no meaning, you're a poor man.
Similiar here, Command + W closes the Window as it should. OS X's menubar is visible like always, so I know I am in the browser, no way of spoofing me to believe that this is now my desktop. *yawn*
Hmmmm, maybe he wanted to imply that since there is no god, he did not get any brain. And with no brain, one can hardly think. Which could explain why he says that his brain was given by a god. Which could make us forgive him because with no brain...
I guess you get the point.
Where were we? Aaah yeah, sex.
*zip*
This is exactly what I am asking myself. The backlight is always on, regardless of the color(s) being displayed on-screen, so that one does not count.
That's won't work since he uses Linux.
Are you implying that therefore he has no girlfriend?
Those ads are mainly about "fun" things, sure. On this one you see the mail client, but not composing a message. You can see a demo with the mail client here, though. As for typing a message, me too, I want to try it myself.
I think people who say "Great, I can do that with my XY, too" still didn't get the idea. It's all about the UI, a coherent UI. It's not so much about WHAT you can do, it's about HOW you do it. Simple example: On my phone, I need to press two buttons to read the latest text message. Same on the iPhone. But if I want to read that new text message later and first view some sent messages, I have to dismiss the alert telling me that a new message has arrived, open the menu, navigate to messages, choose "text messages" (3rd entry!! how stupid), choose "Sent" (again, 3rd entry in the menu) and look for the message. On the iPhone, it's still two taps. The same two taps.
Oh, yes, that's true for sure, but you can't deny that what you see in the ad is already standards-rising. Sure, I want to hold one in my own hands to see how it works, especially the on-screen keyboard. But hell, I loved my Palm until I saw what actually can be done with todays technology.
As for the 500$, don't forget that you get a video-iPod with it, too.
Usability != Usability
Come on, have you ever seen an ad for a cellphone which _only_ shows the UI and nevertheless blows you away? I haven't.
I don't think that it is misleading of Apple to claim that those displays "support [for] millions of colors"; they can do that in practice, and be it through dithering or frame rate control. Otherwise one could argue that all CRT monitors had to be declared as being capable of displaying three different colors, red, blue and green. =)
It is estimated that the human eye can perceive about 10 million different colors, not only some 16'000, but this has not yet been definitively resolved. ;)
Concerning the lawsuit - seems that the suers failed to notice that the same displays (TN-Film 6-bit) were already present in iBooks and PowerBooks, and they are present in Acer Aspires, Acer TravelMates, Dell Inspirons, HP Omnibooks, HP Pavilions, Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBooks, IBM Thinkpads, Compaq Presarios, Sony VAIOs, Toshiba Satellites and so on... (List courtesy of Rixstep).
Doubleclicking a Screensaver launches System Preferences and calls the install-dialog of the System Preferences. You don't provide your own installation process for a screensaver, so how do you want to do this?
I've been using Dvorak for two years on my Mac now and I've been using this layout. Works exactly as you describe, as soon as you press the command-key, the american qwerty-layout is activated. I like it that way since Cmd + C, Cmd + V and Cmd + H are burnt into my cerebellum like walking or breathing... =)